Well...

I started playing Skyrim again...

The Black Panthers organized to provide:
School lunches. Ambulance service. Free clinics. Education. Groceries. Escorts for elders…

The photo includes some of my favorite books about and by the Panthers. If you do nothing else today, please look up and read The 10 Point Program.

The #BlackPantherParty, a #socialist #antiracist group, was founded in #Oakland, CA, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1966 by #HueyPNewton & #BobbySeale. It operated health clinics and provided free food to children, scaring Washington into unleashing #COINTELPRO and killing its leaders.

"The Black Panther is an animal that when pressured it moves back until it is cornered, then it comes out fighting for life or death."

On Oct. 15, 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was founded in Oakland, California.

While confronting racism and police violence against the Black community with open militancy, their grassroots "community survival programs" addressed multiracial struggles and provided vital access to food, clothes, housing, healthcare and education.

if you believe in code, believe your eyes. read the diff that was applied to the kernel tree. what do your eyes say?

this governance structure is not for your benefit. it’s for the benefit of the corporations paying to capture Linux.

if you believe or believed in any of the FOSS ideals, this is the moment that all of the evangelism and advocacy and rabid fandom was supposedly there to steel the community against.

but it didn’t work. we’re in the disaster scenario and you’re still asking about fragile solutions. “well what OS do *you* recommend? why can’t we just fork the kernel? what if it’s not all that bad? what if torvalds and the rest snap out of it?”

none of this shit worked to save FOSS. try something else.

Lost access to this account in mid-August, now things are restored. For a comeback post here is a photo of the Tacoma Buddhist Temple's Buddhist Women's Association. Last month they sorted and repackaged 9120 pounds of food for the Emergency Food Network.

#buddhism #buddhist #engagedbuddhism #shinbuddhism #jodoshinshu #hunger

Eat my dust.

First client site. I wanted to see the people come in, so I got in early (7AM).

I COULD NOT FIND A PARKING SPOT!!!

Luckily, @tinker created the best pretext ever, "Fire alarm check from headquarters."

No one asked me any tough questions, and when I said there are special fire alarms in the server room, they left me there alone.

What do I do with the 1TB backup SSD I swiped from an unlocked network closet?

hi, bit of an odd thing for this account

my father has vaguely come across A Guy who has a supply of decommissioned retired solar panels but nowhere to offload them

how do i get him and/or The Guy in contact with some community-scale projects that can make use of them (e.g. small-scale backyard/balcony/etc systems, not a scrapper)?

location: Silicon Valley, California, USA

🔁 appreciated

edit: you can start by DMing me on fedi, or email r@arcanenibble.com

DEATH OF THE AUTHOR and THE SPACE CAT are both 2026 Hugo Award finalists. Still traveling, 😉. Thank you for reading.

Full lists here: https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2026-hugo-awards/

been a while since i posted here. i've been working on a new novel. 🪶

RE: https://mas.to/@nnedi/117414695668124551

Read Nnedi Okorafor's essay on the distinction between *africanfuturism* and *afrofuturism* here: https://nnedi.blogspot.com/2019/10/africanfuturism-defined.html

Quote: "Africanfuturism is concerned with visions of the future, is interested in technology, leaves the Earth, skews optimistic, is centered on and predominantly written by people of African descent (black people) and it is rooted first and foremost in Africa. It's less concerned with "what could have been" and more concerned with "what is and can/will be". It acknowledges, grapples with and carries "what has been"."

The essay dives in more.

Both genre's are awesome and the distinction is very important.

After reading the essay, go read some books within both genre's. To get started with africanfuturism, look here: https://nnedi.com/books/

#africanfuturism #nnediokorafor #books #bookstodon #afrofuturism #solarPunk

Day Pass is back again, and this time, we're in Asia!

The new season of my public transit travel show Day Pass will be available on Nebula on October 21st.

Visit https://daypasstravel.com to learn more!

my solar website worked so well that i added a bigger battery and panels and my entire server is on it now with all my self-hosted services. it's cool.

Here is the cover I created for a story by Jeff Vandermeer , author of *Annihilation / Southern Reach*.

https://paa.ge/harriorrihar

#jonjuarez #illustration #conceptart #anime #jeffvandermeer

#BathME - #SharingTable In-Person -
Tuesdays, 12pm - 2:30pm

Remaining 2026 dates:
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
Tuesday, November 24, 2026
Tuesday, December 1, 2026
Tuesday, December 8, 2026
Tuesday, December 15, 2026
Tuesday, December 22, 2026
Tuesday, December 29, 2026

Children's Room
Patten Free Library
33 Summer Street
Bath, ME 04530

"Free fresh vegetables gleaned from #LocalFarms provided by the #MerrymeetingGleaners and #MidCoast #HungerPrevention Program. Find the Sharing Table outside the Children's Room from September-May and in the Gazebo during the summer.

Sharing tables are open to anyone, there is no income or residency requirement and they are 100% anonymous. The tables are stocked with #FreshProduce as well as some prepared items, processed using any surplus gleaned food. #TakeWhatYouNeed and leave the rest for your friends and neighbors. Produce will vary depending on what is available from the farms and gardens. Please bring your own bags."

Event page:
https://patten-lib.libcal.com/event/15944860

#SolarPunkSunday #PattenFreeLibrary
#FoodSecurity #FoodSharing #MaineEvents #LibrariesRule #NeighborsHelpingNeighbors #FarmToTable #BuildingCommunity #MaineLibraries #Gleaners #SharingFood #FoodInsecurity

New bench banner with new logo for my food group at a recent Free Swap (We gave away and accepted food at the event and let folks know of our 24/7 Free Food Swap fridges and pantries)

#solarPunk #freeFridge #foodRescue #mutualAid #freeSwap

New bench banner with new logo for my food group at a recent Free Swap (We gave away and accepted food at the event and let folks know of our 24/7 Free Food Swap fridges and pantries)

#solarPunk #freeFridge #foodRescue #mutualAid #freeSwap

There are a lot of reasons I went into horticultural science. But mostly it comes down to:

I love fruit.

I remember the tastes of diverse fruits I had when younger...before markets had gotten consolidated into as huge ones as now.

When folks talk food security, they tend to be talking about grains and pulses. And those are very important.

But fruits aren't optional for me.

I love fruit.

#Science #FruitToot #Pomology #Horticulture #Agriculture

I’ve probably said this before, but I don’t get why people reply with “yeah but your action won’t solve the entire problem” where «problem» is a massive systemic issue; as if that kind of reply were worth considering or profound or something.

My sad friend, I know you’re dispirited and discouraged. But don’t spread your shit on other people’s optimism.

We don’t need to solve the ENTIRE problem to make a substantial improvement. Every small act of restoration is a valuable act of defiance. Do it not because it solves EVERYTHING; do it because it solves SOMETHING. Let yourself be known as a helper, someone who does what CAN be done, while looking for opportunities to do EVEN MORE.

Don’t become a speed bump on someone else’s journey to find solutions.

Be part of the solution, be curious and learn to help, or be muted/blocked.